Yes it's obvious this has to happen. AIs tend to promote certain products a lot more than others. If a training set costs billions to process, the incentive to sneak your product into the set... Maybe give it a few additional training rounds of that... It's like an ad which keeps coming back over and over for the life of the model whenever someone asks a related question.

>>for sure companies are already paying for having their products added to the training set of popular LLMs.<<

Is there a source for such claims. I am also interested to know.